[Akin]

No in both cases, the ship would move to the planet and then won't be able to colonize it if somone else has it already... I've had that happen before. The problem is the ships don't load population and they don't start moving at all. I check the ship's orders after I use the "send colony ship" command, and they have orders to load population from the planet they are at and then to move to the selected planet and then colonize it; but nothing happens and the next turn they have no orders at all.